The Holiday Atlas

12/25/2024

From our family to yours, Merriest Christmas! Wishing you warmth, love and light(s!) into the new year!

12/24/2024

Android users! It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The Holiday Atlas mobile app is finally iOS AND Android official!

There’s only a couple of days until Christmas but there’s still plenty of time to see the lights and displays. I am happy to announce the release of The Holiday Atlas mobile app in the Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycompany.theholidayatlas&pcampaignid=web_share

Thank you SO much to everyone that helped test the app, for giving us the much appreciated feedback, and for all of your patience and support as we worked through this together.

I hope everyone has a very merry and safe Christmas!

12/22/2024

We are really proud of our own display this year, so we wanted to share it with fellow light-lovers!

12/13/2024

I broke it, but we're back!

There comes a time in the development world that you make a change that messes everything up and I made that change. I successfully broke the website this afternoon messing around with the domain (DNS settings for those that know the struggle).

We're back up and running now though, just in time to finish up dinner and go check out the lights!

For those that may still be having issues, you may need to clear your cache/cookies (not the edible ones) and it should clear things up.

12/09/2024

Attention website users: We have made some changes to better marry the backend between our app and the original web-based tool. You may experience oddities on the website as everything clicks into place (and indexes!) but we expect everything to be ironed out later this afternoon. Thanks for your patience!

12/09/2024

Just a quick "thank you" (and apologies!) to the community for reporting the issue with the images not loading on the website. I finally found the issue and it is RESOLVED! If anyone runs into any other issues, with the website, the app, or anything else, feel free to reach out. Thank you for your patience while we figured this one out!

12/06/2024

🎉 The Holiday Atlas is officially available in the Apple App Store to help your family enjoy finding the nation’s best Christmas lights! 🎉

We are still at the mercy of the Google Play Store processes to be available on Android but we will keep you all posted when it is available!

This has been a dream-in-the-making for my husband and I for many years and we are so thrilled to bring it into reality!

We’d love for you to enjoy the season using our new app. There we don’t have the technical confines that the website was limiting us to, so we are able to build so much more! For example… coming in 2025: HALLOWEEN DISPLAYS! 😀

We have pins covering a lot of the country but if you have a specific request for us to find more lights in your local area, let us know and we will prioritize it!

Here is an early access link to download:

12/05/2024

To follow up on our last post, with 13 out of the minimum 20 testers opted-in, we've learned some things...

1. If you asked to be part of the testing phase but never received an email, please check your spam/junk folders. A few people have found the invitation email in there.

2. The Google Play Store is going to charge you to download the app (it should be ~$0.49 depending on locale). We are closely monitoring the purchases and are refunding all charges immediately.

3. You should have also received an invitation or a message from a Google Group called "The Holiday Atlas Android Testers". That's a legit emaill (that also might be in your spam/junk folder) and there's a welcome message at the top of the group with the links to download the app for testing.

4. As we learn things (this is our first experience deploying an app on Google Play and the App Store), we will post information about the test in the group. Feel free to start conversations and/or report issues you encounter in the group as well!

Anyone else that wants to sign up for the Android test, please visit this link and "request to join" - https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/the-holiday-atlas-android-testers/

If that gives you any problems, DM us your email address and we'll work with you to get you in and get you the information.

Thank you to everyone that has shown interest in this! It's given us a lot of hope for the future!

12/03/2024

The Holiday Atlas mobile app sneak peek

Version 1 is complete! Now we are at the mercy of the app stores.

Stay tuned!

11/28/2024

We have been BUSY ELVES this off-season!

We are so excited to launch The Holiday Atlas mobile app this year! We are just finishing up testing and will announce here when it is available in the App Store …NATIONWIDE!

The Holiday Atlas has grown a lot over the last 5 years (over 100k users!) and we wanted to be able to continue to spread the Christmas cheer better than what we are able to do via a website. The app will have improved functionality on launch and we are already working on developing new features!

Stay tuned, there is a lot in store coming from The Holiday Atlas this season!

We sincerely thank everyone who has been on this journey with us. Christmas light people are our favorite kinds of people!

From tacky to traditional, our Atlas is here to get you in the spirit and help you find Christmas light displays and events in Florida

12/23/2023

We are Panhandle Official! Thank you, thank you ABC WEAR ABC 3 News, Pensacola for this incredible gift! Thank you for helping us grow our community and spread holiday cheer!

https://weartv.com/news/local/florida-couples-festive-map-lights-the-way-to-the-best-christmas-displays-statewide #

RIVERVIEW, Fla. -- A couple in Florida has made it easier for people to find the best Christmas lights in their area.